SANTA ANA, Calif. — A California man who killed eight people at a hair salon in 2011 was sentenced to life without parole Friday in a courtroom packed with sobbing victims’ relatives, who shared vivid memories of their loved ones and wished the shooter a painful end in prison. Scott Dekraai, a 47-year-old former tugboat...

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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California mass killer will be spared the death penalty amid a long-running scandal over local authorities' use of jailhouse informants, a judge decided Friday.Judge Thomas M. Goethals said Scott Dekraai would not be sentenced to death after pleading guilty to killing eight people in a 2011 shooting rampage at an Orange County hair salon.The ruling leaves only the possibility that Dekraai, 47, will be sentenced to life in prison.It's rare for a judge to bar prosecutors from seeking a death sentence. While acknowledging the "horrendous" nature of Dekraai's crime, Goethals found that failures by the prosecution team would prevent a fair penalty phase of the trial.